OSCON is no Comic-Con, which is happening concurrently to OSCON in San Diego, but I knew this going in.  Still, its pretty fun so far, full of interesting people wearing "genius by birth, slacker by choice," Firefox and even quite a few Ubuntu tee-shirts instead of Chewbacca costumes.  Monday and Tuesday are the slow days--the expo floor is closed and most people who registered for "sessions only" like me only come Wednesday-Friday.  Comic-Con is part of the reason I decided to study F/OSS convention; I am very curious if F/OSS convent

This is the new version of my old research blog, all shiny and new and running on drupal.  Why drupal?  (Drupal is a f/oss content management system that can be used for really complicated stuff like mtv.co.uk or this simple site) Why not one of the many, very nice, easy to use hosted softwares out there like blogger or wordpress or something?  Why did I waste all sorts of time trying to learn drupal, failing to understand .css, and